Early Hydra Air Defense

How to defend your base against an early air attack by using Hydralisk. Hydralisks are more powerful in StarCraft 2 than in the original and are excellent at defending any early air attack.

Difficulty Rank:

3/5


When to Use:		Featured Units:
Use this when your opponent is going early air and you need to defend it.

[What to do]
Keep your hydras near your drone line and close to your structures.


[Tips for Pulling This Off]
Use your hydras in groups and have as much creep around as possible for them to more quickly move around to intercept air armies. You may need to bounce your hydras between your expansion and your starting base.


Good vs. These Races / Strategies:		Bad vs. These Races / Strategies:
This is good vs. any early air army as Hydra's have a great DPS and are cheaper than most air units.		This is bad when they have overwhelming amounts of air units or they can outrange you on a ledge.

What to do in Success:		What to do in Failure:
If you don't have significant troops you should keep them around and look to defend another, larger, air attack. If you do have significant troops it's probably a great time to counter-attack and expand. Keep building units at your base as well so you can defend against another air attack if need be.		If you fail hopefully you have enough static defense or Queens to survive. You will need to quickly produce more Hydra's to fend off any attacking air units.